Hi Debian mentors, I picked up an existing qt application which was not packaged before. I do maintenance on the source code and would like to create proper Debian packages. I'm fairly new at creating Debian packages, I read some documentation about packaging and did some testing, which goes fairly well (creating, pgp signing, etc.). However the source package doesn't contain the proper source for the binary file. Allow me to explain. The original sources are in a remote SVN repository, the project consists of 2 major components, a 'kernel' and a gui. These 2 projects compile separately, although the resulting binary of the gui component is a single file which also contains the binary code from the 'kernel'. Obviously, it is not convenient to have a source package created (using debuild) that doesn't contain all the proper sources. What would be the best approach to deal with this? Note that I'm fairly new at creating Debian packages and developing qt applications (I do have experience in Java, but not with Debian in mind). The original developer included a custom build script which essentially goes into the 'kernel' directory', calls "make clean", followed by qmake, then calls make. After compiling the 'kernel', the script goes to the gui directory, again calls "make clean", followed by qmake, again followed by make. Afterward, the script calls make install (still from the gui directory), and finally copies some needed resources over to the installation directory (~ by default). The thing I'd like to avoid is merging the 2 components into a single source, as that would make it difficult to contribute back to the 'kernel' component, which is cross-platform. I manage both components in Git, using git-svn to fetch upstream changes for the 'kernel' module. Splitting the application into 2 separate packages (lib and gui) seems more feasible, but I don't know how to do that at this point. Also with regard to package management, what would be recommended to make changes to the package easy, like keeping it in Git? Separating the package from the original source, or integrating it in the same source tree? (might not be feasible with the 'kernel') Simplified directory tree: ~/development/projectname + projectgui/ - + .git/ - + src/ - - - main.cpp - - projectgui.pro - + resource/ + kernel/ - + .git/ - - kernel.cpp - - kernel.pro Any advice is appreciated. Kind regards, Steven
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